Sunday, March 24, 2013

Remember days like this....?

Pulled back the curtains to reveal a snow-covered landscape under leaden skies again? Crawled back under the duvet?Here's an antidote to all the bad weather porn that's dominating blogs at present - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema'sNinety Four in the Shade, showing a sweltering lepidopterist resting in the shade, reading his field guide, too hot to chase any more butterflies.You've gotta have a dream, haven't you?

The only place I've seen stooks recently is in an open air museum near here, John. I can remember seeing straw and hay ricks when I was a kid, though, before everything was wrapped up in black polythene on farms.

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll ever see days like this again, Phil. For me it's a frustrating inconvenience, but there are now too many people that are really being hit hard by this continually bad weather, and the wildlife and livestock are suffering terribly.

I'm hoping that more people will now pay attention to concerns about climate change.

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